A mum who attempted to sell her infant son for £4,000 had advertised him on human organ transplant sites.
Nargiza Aitmatova, 36, was detained in a sting operation in Russia after posting social media notices saying she wanted to sell her boy for cash to body part traders.
Sick Aitmatova took the young lad to a meeting at a shopping mall in Yekaterinburg with undercover cops posing as potential buyers who were responding to her advertisement.
Sources say during the chat she handed over the child’s documents including a medical card, insurance policy, birth certificate and migration card.
They added: “She was asked several times if she knew exactly what she was doing, if she understood that she would never see her son again, because those who ‘buy’ him do not want her to have any contact with him.
“She said that she understood everything.”
As she pocketed the cash, the mum lied to the boy, saying his dad would pick him up later.
The sting operation was conducted by anti-slavery and trafficking group Alernativa and Russian law enforcement officers after her online advertisements to sell the boy were spotted.
An Alternativa source added: “The woman [buyer] explained to the boy that his father would allegedly pick him up. And he was waiting for him.”
“She had many subscriptions to similar groups, including organ transplants. In one of the liver transplant groups, there was an advertisement.”
During the negotiations, Aitmatova “behaved calmly” and gave the "buyer" a chance to talk to the boy.
Officers quickly detained the mum - a native of Kyrgyzstan - on child trafficking charges.
She was seen handcuffed and in a court cage at her custody hearing.
A female judge remanded her in custody for two months pending a criminal investigation, as the woman's friend Izat watched.
The woman, seen in court with the face partially covered, claimed she was selling the boy too clear debts and because her new husband did not like the child, whose dad was her previous partner.
The sting operation to save the child comes amid concern in Russia over children being traded into sexual slavery or for body parts with the involvement of organised criminal gangs.
Earlier a spokesman for Alternativa said: “Until the end we hoped it was a made-up story, that this was someone's stupid joke or a fraud for money,” said a spokesman.
“However, when our group, together with the employees of the organised crime investigation group, left for the 'deal', we witnessed the boy being sold.
“Nargiza received the money and gave the child to a person she did not know.”
The boy is now in the care of social services while his future is decided.
Her other two children, a boy and girl, are with her husband.
